Monday, January 20, 2014

Random bullets of a new week

Today is Martin Luther King Day. Among other things we need to remember on this day is that the whole controversy over establishing it, more than 30 years ago, is a reminder of just why we need to honor this man's legacy.

The beginning (post-MLA or no) of the semester marks the real beginning of 2014 for a lot of us.

Historiann's Liturgy of the Book post is worth reading more than once for a lot of reasons, not least what it says about the difficulties of the "bang it out" first draft mode. I wonder if that works better for fiction than for research-related writing, for, as she says, "Part of the reason for this is that the intricate social history that I
must do in this book means that I’m frequently both doing the research
and making discoveries and connections while I’m writing."